Monday, May 15, 2006

"I think it will be fun" he says.

His wedding is this Saturday and I asked him if he was nervous, excited, scared, or wishing it was 'done with already'.
His response?
"Not really that nervous or excited about the wedding itself. But I think being married will be fun. I can’t wait for that. It’ll be fun to sleep in the same bed and smell her breath in the morning and wear a big ring on my finger and stuff like that. "

In the book I read yesterday, An Unfinished Marriage, (see below) the author makes the following observation, "It's easy to fall in love. It's even easy to fall out of love. It's that business of staying in love that takes so much work."

What's your experience been? Fun? Or hard work?
And why can't hard work be fun?


Three things I'm thankful for:
1. Friends with beautiful backyards who invite me over to sit on their pool patio and visit on balmy Monday evenings. It feels like I just got home from a mini-vacation.
2. Tropicana Pulp-free orange juice.
3. How many more sleeps til the long weekend? 4. Just FOUR.

Shalom,

1 comment:

Christine Lindsay said...

Not sure about hard work, how does one describe the committment to just stick with it through thick and thin. I think it's all a matter of realizing what marriage is supposed to look like. It's not glorious romance, it's a stready bedrock of friendship and similar beliefs that will get you through. But what do I know -- only 25 years of marriage and went passed the stage of giving it all up, then coming back to it. I guess I know a thing or too. STAY MARRIED, STAY FAITHFUL and like Dennis Quaid said in a movie to a younger guy, "keep your dick in your pants." Girls that goes for you too.